About this book
Give your fourth grader the confidence to succeed on both Colorado CMAS tests — Mathematics and English Language Arts — in one book.
This Smart Stars combined edition brings together ten full-length, standards-aligned practice tests that mirror the length, item mix, and question types of the real Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) assessments.
Take a look inside
CMAS is the state summative test the Colorado Department of Education gives to students statewide, delivered online.
- On the real test: students click, drag, type, mark points on number lines, read clocks, angles, and graphs, and select evidence from reading passages.
- On paper instead of a screen: this book renders those same skills as clear, print-friendly items — with the same number lines, area and perimeter figures, angle diagrams, bar and picture graphs, line plots, fraction and array models, and reading-passage sets.
So the thinking is identical even though the answering is on paper.
What’s inside
- Ten full-length practice tests — five Mathematics (60 questions each) and five English Language Arts (35 questions each, including constructed-response writing items), 475 questions in all — with detailed Answers and Explanations after every test
- Every CMAS item format, rendered for paper: single-answer multiple choice, multiple select (“select two”), type-in/keypad answers, two-part evidence-based items, and technology-enhanced multi-part tasks — across both subjects
- Built to the real test’s shape: each Math test is organized into short sections (just like test day), with no calculator and no reference sheet, and each ELA test pairs original reading passages with the question sets that follow them
Topics covered
- Multi-digit addition and subtraction with regrouping
- Multi-digit multiplication and long division, including multi-step word problems
- Factors, multiples, and prime and composite numbers
- Equivalent fractions, comparing fractions, and adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers
- Multiplying a fraction by a whole number
- Measurement and unit conversion — length, mass, liquid volume, and time
- Area and perimeter of rectangles and composite figures in real-world problems
- Angles: measuring, drawing, and additive angle problems
- Two-dimensional geometry — points, lines, rays, angles, parallel and perpendicular lines, and symmetry
- Interpreting and creating bar graphs, picture graphs, and line plots
- Main idea, central message and theme, and the key details that support them
- Character, setting, and plot in literary stories, and how characters change
- Text structure — sequence, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and problem and solution
- Poetic and dramatic elements, imagery, and figurative language
- Making inferences and citing the specific text evidence that supports them
- Comparing two texts on the same topic or theme
- Grammar and conventions: verb tense, subject-verb agreement, capitalization, commas, and apostrophes
- Constructed-response writing: developing an idea with details and evidence and organizing a clear response
Why parents and teachers choose Smart Stars
- Educator-authored: Every question and passage is written and reviewed by classroom-experienced educators, and no passage is reproduced from copyrighted work.
- Mirrors test day: Each practice test matches the official CMAS item mix, question formats, and on-screen skills for its subject, rendered clearly for paper practice.
- Explanations teach the why: Math entries show the full worked solution and name the trap behind the top wrong answer; reading entries point to the exact evidence in the passage.
- Both subjects in one book: The same tests as the single-subject editions, combined so your child can build math fluency and reading stamina side by side.
